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30 MEG-A-MORPHOSIS 12 EDITORIAL 52 ON THE SLATE Meg Ryan lets loose talking about November, Shnovember. It’s time Cameron Diaz gets her wings, sex, love and nudity in her latest for holiday pics The Rock plays Hawaiian king flick, the erotic thriller In the Cut. Plus, she explains why she still 15 LETTERS 54 NAME OF THE GAME can’t believe people think of her as Getting into Uma’s Kill Bill All hail Lord of the Rings “America’s Sweetheart” jumpsuit | By Ingrid Randoja 58 VIDEO AND DVD 16 SNAPS Your complete guide to The Matrix 42 REVOLUTIONARY LEADER Jude Law gets a facelift, and have Reloaded on DVD. Plus new releases, The Matrix Revolutions’ elusive star you seen Janeane Garofalo lately? including Terminator 3. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Keanu Reeves reveals, well, not

much about the series finale. But 18 SHORTS 62 HOROSCOPE 5 98 we do uncover profound moments Marie-Josée Croze on winning Best This is what you’ve been waiting in the actor’s private life that may Actress at Cannes for The Barbarian for, Scorpio have contributed to his portrayal of Invasions the potential saviour of all mankind COVER STORY | By Bruce Kirkland 22 THE BIG PICTURE Look for The Missing, and go ducky 46 HAT TRICKS 34 WILL POWER for Looney Tunes: Back in Action Why did Dr. Seuss write The Cat in The jokes are flying as Saturday the Hat? Why are Canadian Night Live alumnus Will Ferrell 28 SPOTLIGHT comics, like The Cat’s Mike Myers, chats about his first starring role, in Love Actually’s Keira Knightley so suited to playing Dr. Seuss the seasonal comedy Elf, and tells characters? And how did a Toronto you why he just can’t turn the 38 TRIVIA FX company help bring The Cat to funny switch to off Which Matrix star used to be a the big screen? | By Marni Weisz | By Earl Dittman beauty queen?

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editorial | HEAD START ON THE November 2003 volume 4 number 11 PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR

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about sex, love, relationships and fidelity. Fidelity didn’t score too well. “I was 16 when I saw it, and I disliked it,” Croze admits. “I thought it was really cynical and I didn’t want to believe in that kind of relationship between human beings.” She didn’t see the 3/C

film again until 15 years later when she arrived home from a party B late one night and turned on the TV. “I thought it was so true. I was 31 now, and I went ‘Oh my God, it makes me think so much.’ And G

not in a good way, you know? It’s unfortunately true how people are R so unfaithful, and it hurt me — my heart — the reality.” The Barbarian Invasions picks up 17 years later as the friends from the first movie reunite to say goodbye to Rémy (Rémy Girard), who’s dying of cancer in a rundown Quebec hospital. But the real story is Rémy’s reunion with his son Sébastien (Stéphane Rousseau) who returns from his new home in London, England, to mend their relationship. Now a successful businessman, Sébastien bribes hospital staff to fix up a deserted ward so his father will have a peaceful place to spend his final weeks. And, after learning that heroin is a far better painkiller than morphine, Sébastien tracks down Croze’s character, Nathalie, to get the drug. “When I started shooting with Denys Arcand I asked him, ‘I don’t

understand why my character needs to be there because morphine is 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a good painkiller,’” Croze recalls. “And he said, ‘Yes, but you lose [your mind] when you take morphine. Heroin is the opposite. Your spirit is really open and your physical pain is completely gone.’” Unfortunately, Croze found out just how true Arcand’s words were when, just after filming wrapped, her own mother was hospitalized with emphysema and told she would not survive. Not having access to heroin, Croze’s experience with terminal illness HEROIN was very different than the philosophical, caring growth experience depicted in the film. “Pain makes people really, really mean,” says Croze. “My mother, she’s a control freak, and when she’s sick it’s completely insane and she doesn’t remember after she becomes normal.”

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PHOTO BY JOCELYN MICHEL PHOTO BY JOCELYN medicinal use, Croze’s answer is quick and definitive. “Yes. I don’t HEROINEo one expected Marie-Josée Croze to win Best Actress at this understand why it doesn’t exist. We don’t need to suffer, it makes me year’s Cannes film festival, least of all Croze. Her part in Denys sick. When she got morphine she didn’t suffer, but she didn’t realize NArcand’s The Barbarian Invasions — a drug addict brought in who she was and who we were and it’s sad, you know?” to supply a dying character with heroin — is relatively small. And Whenever Croze looked at the intravenous emptying into her there’s no such thing as a “Supporting Actress” award at Cannes. mother’s arm she thought about how much she would love to inject So when the winners were announced at the end of the planet’s heroin into the tube. “But I have no courage to do that, put myself most famous film festival last May, Croze (Ararat, Maelström) was in an illegal situation,” she says sheepishly. half-a-world away in her native Montreal. “Cannes is really expen- Contrary to expectations, her mother got better and was released sive and we decided it was really complicated to keep us there,” she from hospital. Croze had just been speaking with her on the phone explains. Instead of waiting for the final night’s awards show, the before our interview. “I would love to show her the film because cast returned from the French Riviera right after the film’s premiere. she’s too sick to go to the theatre, but there’s no tape. I’m dying Back in Canada, the actors were spread out over various panel for her to see it, it’s a good film for someone like her.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 TV shows during the awards, so that if the film won anything their Now that Marie-Josée Croze is no longer just a marginally reactions would be caught on tape. No one thought it would be recognizable actor from Quebec, but a Cannes Best Actress award Croze’s name echoing through the Palais des Festivals that night. winner the pressure to choose the right projects has intensified. It must have been a wonderful moment for the 33-year-old, no? “Of course, people are waiting,” she says, “and from my point “Ohhh, I felt bad,” Croze says over the phone from her Montreal of view it’s difficult because I haven’t shot for one year. It’s like a apartment. Her English is a work in progress, but she is thoughtful love affair. When you’re really in love with someone and it’s finished, and articulate. “I felt, ‘Oh my God, it’s a mistake.’ Many, many bad usually it takes a long time before you fall in love again. And I feel things occurred to me, like, maybe I don’t deserve it.” It wasn’t the same way with this film.” until her co-stars rushed over from their respective sets to congrat- But don’t worry too much about whether poor Marie-Josée will be ulate Croze that she started to let herself feel good. “We did a press gobbled up by the hangers-on who inevitably come with success. As conference and it was fun. The support was really important to me.” soon as her award was announced the host of the TV show asked

The film is director Arcand’s follow-up to his 1986 film, whether she would still be faithful to them now that she’s a big star. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The Decline of the American Empire. That movie, which was nomi- “And I said ‘No! I’m faithful to nobody, no one will have control of nated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, followed a group me! I will decide what I’m going to do,’” Croze recalls with an of friends as they prepared for, and ate, dinner, all the while talking embarrassed laugh. “All my answers were so rude!” —MARNI WEISZ

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NOVEMBER 1 NOVEMBER 7 NOVEMBER 14 BROTHER BEAR ELF TUPAC: RESURRECTION VOICES: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez WHO’S IN IT? Will Ferrell, James Caan WHO’S IN IT? Tupac Shakur 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHO DIRECTED? Aaron Blaise and Robert WHO DIRECTED? Jon Favreau (Made) WHO DIRECTED? Lauren Lazin (debut) Walker (debuts) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When Santa’s helper WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The mother of late WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Disney opts for a hand- Buddy (Ferrell) discovers he’s not really a rapper Tupac Shakur produced this docu- drawn, old-school look for this tale of freakishly large elf, but rather a fully mentary on her son’s life, which includes Native American warrior Kenai (Phoenix), grown human, he heads to New York City home movies, excerpts from his journal, a who’s magically transformed into a bear to search for his biological dad (Caan). few unreleased songs and footage from and must learn the ways of the forest See Will Ferrell interview, page 34. one of his final concerts. � before his tribe hunts him down. � NOVEMBER 5 MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS SIDE OF THE WORLD 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHO’S IN IT? Keanu Reeves, WHO’S IN IT? Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany Carrie-Anne Moss WHO DIRECTED? Peter Weir WHO DIRECTED? Andy Wachowski, Larry (The Truman Show) Wachowski (The Matrix Reloaded) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Captain Jack WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The end is in sight, as Aubrey (Russell Crowe, complete with Neo (Reeves) and his human freedom tatty ponytail) and his crew of the fighters move above ground to dismantle HMS Surprise hightail it across the the computer program that’s holding high seas chasing the French frigate mankind hostage. Expect more elaborate that took a potshot at them. This fight scenes, the reappearance of sexy epic, 19th-century sea adventure, program Persephone (Monica Bellucci) based on the series by Patrick and a stop-it-you’re-hurting-my-head final O’Brian, reportedly cost a whopping speech summing up the entire series. See $135-million to make. NOVEMBER 14 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Keanu Reeves interview, page 42.

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HITS THEATRES NOVEMBER 26 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 � � LOONEY TUNES: BAD SANTA THE HAUNTED MANSION BACK IN ACTION WHO’S IN IT? Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac WHO’S IN IT? Eddie Murphy, Don Knotts WHO’S IN IT? Brendan Fraser, WHO DIRECTED? Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World) WHO DIRECTED? Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little 2) Jenna Elfman WHAT’S IT ABOUT? An alcoholic safe- WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The latest film to be WHO DIRECTED? Joe Dante (Small Soldiers) cracker (Thornton) and his small criminal based on a Disney theme ride — à la WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In a universe in which pal (Tony Cox) disguise themselves as The Country Bears and Pirates of the Looney Tunes characters co-exist with Santa Claus and his elf and travel around Caribbean — finds job interviewee Murphy real people, a pissed-off Daffy Duck finally shopping malls ripping off stores along running into 999 ghosts inside a scary

snaps, quits his job and teams up with a the way. Look for the late John Ritter, who mansion. This family friendly flick co-stars 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 stuntman (Fraser) to search for a plays a mall manager. one of the movies all-time great scaredy- legendary diamond. The canard will be cats, Mr. Chicken himself, Don Knotts. really miffed when Bugs Bunny has to DR. SEUSS’ THE CAT IN come to his rescue. THE HAT NOV 1 BROTHER BEAR WHO’S IN IT? Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin NOV 5 THE MATRIX NOVEMBER 21 WHO DIRECTED? Bo Welch (debut) REVOLUTIONS WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The famed mischievous NOV 7 ELF GOTHIKA feline (Myers) and his pals, Thing #1 and LOVE ACTUALLY WHO’S IN IT? Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz Thing #2, wreak havoc when they visit a NOV 14 TUPAC: RESURRECTION WHO DIRECTED? Mathieu Kassovitz (Hate) paired of bored kids on a rainy afternoon. LOONEY TUNES: WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Berry plays a psycholo- See Cat in the Hat feature, page 46. gist who wakes up in a mental hospital to BACK IN ACTION discover that not only is she is a patient NOVEMBER 26 MASTER AND 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 accused of killing her husband, but that COMMANDER: THE FAR an evil spirit inhabits her body. TIMELINE SIDE OF THE WORLD WHO’S IN IT? Paul Walker, NOV 21 GOTHIKA THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS Frances O’Connor BAD SANTA WHO’S IN IT? Rémy Girard, Marie-Josée Croze WHO DIRECTED? Richard Donner DR. SEUSS’ THE WHO DIRECTED? Denys Arcand (Stardom) (Conspiracy Theory) CAT IN THE HAT WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This follow-up to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A history professor (Billy NOV 26 Arcand’s Oscar-nominated The Decline of Connolly) gets trapped in 14th-century TIMELINE the American Empire reunites the friends France and it’s up to his students, THE HAUNTED from that first movie 17 years later, at the including Walker and O’Connor, to go MANSION deathbed of womanizing Rémy. back and retrieve him. THE MISSING 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 CHECK WWW.FAMOUSPLAYERS.COM FOR SHOWTIMES AND LOCATIONS Some films play only in major markets. All release dates subject to change. famous 24 | november 2003

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The Phantom Menace. Because the notoriously secretive George Lucas did not want anyone to know about the decoy ruse, Knightley had to keep her involvement in the film a secret. The remarkable resemblance between Knightley and Portman was 3/C

such that when they were both in full makeup not even their B mothers could tell them apart. Knightley’s next film role was as a bitchy private school girl G

trapped in a bunker in The Hole, and one year later she was cast R as the soccer-loving tomboy Juliette in the indie hit Bend it Like Beckham. From there she took on the daunting lead role of Lara in the TV mini-series Doctor Zhivago, in which she stripped down for nude scenes. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer liked what he saw, and cast Knightley as the feisty governor’s daughter in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which cemented her status as ingenue du jour. Next year Knightley will light up the screen in the historical action pic King Arthur, in which she plays Guinevere opposite Clive Owen’s Arthur, and she’ll be seen in Tulip Fever, as a penniless, 17th-century girl who marries for money but then falls in love with a poor artist (Jude Law). 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 SAMPLE ROLES: Juliet in Love Actually (2003), Elizabeth in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Juliette in Bend it Like Beckham (2002), Frankie in The Hole (2001), Sabé in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (1999) PHOTO COURTESY PHOTO OF COURTESY PR NEWSWIRE LOVE LIFE: None, she’s just a baby! KeiraKNIGHTLEY TRIVIA: Got her belly button pierced when she was 13. • Many think the Queen Amidala action figure resembles Knightley more NOW APPEARING IN…the British ensemble comedy Love Actually than Natalie Portman. • She’s a spokesperson for the British

as Juliet, a bride who discovers she has feelings for the best man. Dyslexia Association. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

BIO BITS: Unlike the music business, which churns out teenage JOHNNY DEPP OR ORLANDO BLOOM? “Got to go for Johnny. Don't pop stars, the movie industry is a much more discriminating biz. tell him that. But I've just got to go for Johnny. His bone struc- Very few teen actors can claim a string of box-office hits, which ture's not bad.” [The Independent, August 2003] —IR makes 18-year-old Keira Knightley’s achievement so incredible — she’s appeared in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Keira Knightley in Love Actually Menace, Bend it Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, three films whose combined, worldwide box-office total is a staggering one-and-a-half billion dollars. Keira Knightley was born on March 22, 1985 in the London, England, suburb of Teddington to artistic parents (dad Will Knightley is an actor, and mom Sharman Macdonald is a writer). 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The three-year-old Keira was fond of performing and, after seeing her parents deal with agents, demanded she get one of her own. Of course, mum and dad said no, but she would not relent and at age six her parents agreed to let her pursue acting. However, she was only allowed to work during summer holidays because she had recently been diagnosed with dyslexia and her parents felt she could not afford to miss a day of school. The little actress thrived, performing in TV movies and at her local youth club, where she enrolled in drama workshops. Her big break came when, at the age of 12, she was cast as Sabé, Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman’s Queen Amidala in 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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ho is the real Meg Ryan? Is she “America’s Sweetheart,” Wor the woman who danced on a table top with Russell Crowe? Is she a raging prima donna or, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 perhaps, one of Hollywood’s most underrated and bravest actors? Simply put, she’s all of the above, a woman who, for the past few years, has dismantled her goody two-shoes image and pieced together a complex and fractured public face. You don’t have to look any further than Ryan’s latest and most contro- versial film to date, the erotic thriller In the Cut, to witness her makeover.

Directed by Jane Campion (The 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Piano) and based on Susanna Moore’s novel, In the Cut stars Ryan as Frannie, a lonely New York City writing professor who has a fascination with sexual and street slang. When a woman is decapitated in Frannie’s Lower East Side neighbourhood, police detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) is sent to interview Frannie, who he believes may have seen the killer. What begins as an interview devel- ops into a flirtation, and then later into an all-out sexual relationship 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 between the crass, über-macho Malloy and the emotionally detached Frannie. Ryan sheds her clothes for the first � �

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uninhibited performance that may I’ve raised my hand to have, although G shock her Sleepless in Seattle fan base. there are worse things to be called than “Yeah those scenes were hard, but ‘America’s Sweetheart,’ right? R Jane [Campion] showed us every shot. “I’ve done 30 movies, seven of which We knew everything that was happening, are romantic comedies…I feel like I’m every angle, she even threatened to reacting to something I’m really not all take her own clothes off, but we were that up to speed with. But I do under- like, ‘Oh, Jane no, for God sakes!’” says stand the idea of being assigned it,” she Ryan, laughing. Meg Ryan and finally says, more warmly and conceding The star is surrounded by a table full of Mark Ruffalo in In the Cut the point. journalists at Toronto’s Four Seasons Look at Ryan’s résumé and you will hotel during the Toronto International see that she has, throughout her career, Film Festival. In the Cut premiered at the “Obviously, the way mixed light and bubbly romantic come- fest and now Ryan, Campion and Ruffalo dies with much darker material. are coming face to face with the press She played Jim Morrison’s girlfriend you see yourself and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 corps which gave the film mixed reviews. in The Doors after breaking through in Sporting her trademark short blonde how other people see When Harry Met Sally and Joe Versus the hair that looks as if it’s been swarmed by Volcano. She anchored the moody drama wayward cans of mousse and gel, Ryan is you is utterly differ- Flesh and Bone with then-husband Dennis alternately charming and a wee bit ent,” says Ryan Quaid after doing Sleepless in Seattle. And prickly. You get the feeling she is waiting on the heels of You’ve Got Mail came for someone to cross the line and ask Hurlyburly, in which she played a strung- her about her very public personal life during the sex scenes. Jane was laughing out exotic dancer. Oh, and In the Cut is — her divorce from Dennis Quaid, her and dancing. Jane is so childlike.” the follow-up to Kate and Leopold. stalker (who was commited last year) or The chance to work with Campion was The reason we identify Ryan with her affair with Proof of Life co-star Russell one of the main reasons Ryan took the those romantic comedies is because she Crowe. Or perhaps someone will ask role — one which was originally sup- plays her lovelorn characters with a about her swollen lips, which look as if posed to go to Nicole Kidman. Campion perky, blithe spirit. What real-life woman 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 they’ve been recently altered. is still not exactly sure why the Aussie wouldn’t want to look as adorable as But no one ventures there, perhaps actor backed out (although she is still Ryan does on screen when going thinking Ryan has sweated under one of the film’s producers), but Kidman through break-ups and heartaches? scrutiny’s spotlight for long enough. It’s recently admitted she couldn’t commit Whether she likes it or not, Ryan has a because of that scrutiny that, according to the emotionally painful role so soon gift for the genre, one that she admits to Campion, the actor was able to take after her divorce from Tom Cruise. she still hasn’t quite figured out. on such a risky role. “I think Jane has this real, unbelievable “It’s a whole different meal when “I was really shocked that Meg Ryan ability to put an interior life on screen,” you’re making [romantic comedies],” was interested in doing this film,” says says Ryan. “I don’t know how she does it. says Ryan, becoming more animated. the filmmaker, “because she doesn’t It’s the difference of hearing a breath in “Tom [Hanks] says, ‘I still can’t figure it [usually] put her hand up for anything your own head and the breath of some- out.’ You’ll sometime see my face

as demanding. But I think things have one next to you. She gets in there. She’s scrunch up when I do those movies 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 changed in her life and she’s had expe- able to create all these complicated peo- because I feel like, what is it that we’re riences through the press which really ple and hang her hat on the [thriller] getting at? It’s something that’s indefin- disavowed her of her privacy, her privacy genre and experiment with her visual able, why those things work. It’s some had been violated. And I think it was a style. She is so remarkable.” combination of elements, rhythm, per- great freedom for her because when In the Cut allowed Campion to play sonality. I always feel there’s more delib- that sort of thing happens it’s very liber- around visually — there are a lot of eration in those movies than people see.” ating and the labels change.” shallow focus and hand-held shots. But Ryan thinks that In the Cut, which is Mark Ruffalo (You Can Count on Me), the film also allows Ryan the chance to full of blood and raw sexuality, is at its says his co-star didn’t let her ego get in stretch as a performer. When a journalist core all about true passion. the way of the work. “No one in this asks if the role is a departure for Ryan, “I see it as a love story,” she says. “I movie plays a part that we’ve ever seen she gives him a slightly chilled look. feel like it’s the triumph of love over them play before, and during those two “I get it every time I do an interview, romance. In Jane’s world, and in this weeks of rehearsal, when you get into ‘This role is a departure,’” she says. movie, I feel that romance is the lie and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the work and it’s true, honest rehearsal, “Well, yeah, I’ve never done anything love is the truth. And the way the sex all the accoutrements of your status are like this, but I’m not interested in even happens in this movie is that there’s immediately left at the door.” talking about this idea of image or labels. this sort of primitive attraction And, he adds, the sex scenes were a lot “Obviously, the way you see yourself [Frannie and Malloy] have for one of fun to shoot. “There was no heaviness and how other people see you is utterly another that evolves into a kiss. It’s all on the set. Meg was making fart noises different. Everyone has that experience. intentionally turned around.”

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or years, he was the only reason Ferrell is concentrating on a full-time why I’m in it. I just am.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 many of us tuned in to Saturday film career and, this month, makes his In this Yuletide fish-out-of-water tale, Night Live. Even when the aging debut as a solo leading man with the Ferrell plays Buddy, a human who was F show seemed artistically bank- Christmas comedy Elf. “I’m ready for raised as an elf after crawling into rupt and ready for the cancellation the humiliation and blame that comes Santa’s bag of goodies as a toddler and heap, you could count on Will Ferrell to with headlining a movie like my first being unwittingly whisked off to the deliver spot-on impersonations (Janet award-winning, megahit, A Night at the North Pole. Now an adult, Buddy is a Reno) and gut-busting characters Roxbury — I love that Monday morning misfit who’s three times the size of his (music teacher Marty Culp). And when smell of crashing and burning at the elfin counterparts. When his adoptive he began taking his talents to the silver box office,” he says with a laugh, papa (Bob Newhart) reveals his true screen (most often in supporting roles before remembering his purpose here. identity, Buddy heads to the Big Apple or extended cameos in movies such as “Actually, I couldn’t be more confident to find his real father (James Caan).

Austin Powers, Zoolander, Superstar and and excited about a film that I’ve done Standing well over six feet and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Old School), he often stole the film. than I do with Elf. It’s an incredibly dressed in a simple pair of slacks and a With his tenure on SNL now over, wonderful film. I still can’t figure out plaid shirt on this warm Los Angeles � �

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afternoon, Ferrell is just as funny in have never grown up.” English 800. They’re both malt bever- � � person as he is on screen. “I’ve never age acting coaches, and I understand understood actors who can turn the How old are you? they’ve helped many an actor through humour off and on, I’m stuck with it, “I’ll be 64 next Thursday.” assignments like nude scenes.” like my transmission is frozen,” he jokes. What were you like as a teenager? Would it be fair to say you’d do anything What attracted you to Elf? “I was somewhat popular. I was lucky, in a film if you thought it would make “I was anxious to wear that groovy green because I didn’t go to a stereotypical audiences laugh?

elf outfit all day. I didn’t even want to high school with jocks and geeks on “Not even that. If the money’s right, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 take it off when the day was over, I loved different sides. Everyone was pretty I’m there. No, seriously, I wouldn’t do it that much. I still have it in my closet at cool. It was a non-judgmental school, as absolutely anything just so some direc- home. I was going to wear it today, but I much as a high school can be. I had a tor could get a shot.” didn’t get it dry-cleaned after the group of friends who were known for drunken party we had the other day. coming to school in pajamas for no rea- Was there a point in your life when you [He laughs, before becoming more seri- son. Surprisingly, that kind of behaviour realized you were funny? ous]. Elf has a really good message. It’s was embraced, as opposed to, ‘Those “Not really. I guess it was just growing one of those feel-good movies that won’t guys are queer. Let’s beat them up.’” up in suburban Orange County that did make you sick on your popcorn and soft it to me. Honestly, I went into comedy drink. It’s funny and it’s heartwarming.” Did you go to college? because I realized I had very few skills “I sure did. But, it’s funny, when Vince to do anything else. I just thought, What makes it heartwarming? Vaughn, Luke Wilson and I did ‘Okay, I’ll try this out and if it fails I can 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “The way we have been able to manipu- Old School, I was the only one who had always go into the Army or something.’ late the emotions of the audience every actually been to college and in a frater- But I think I knew I had what it took to chance we get.” nity. So I had lived some variation of be successful in comedy. You just kind much of the stuff in Old School…. I have of feel it. I either felt it or I had There has to be something a little more to admit, I ran naked around the cam- stomach problems I didn’t know about.” substantial than that, no? pus like my character did in Old School. “Oh yeah, it has a greater message about Obviously, I had grown to a point where Did you always want to be a performer? accepting who you are, appreciating I would do anything for a laugh.” “I think I had somewhat of a sense that I where you come from and finding out wanted to do something different. My where you belong. He’s very childlike in Was it hard doing that nude scene in dad is a musician and a performer, so my many ways. There’s an innocence about Old School? brother and I kind of grew up with a taste him that you can’t help but love.” “I didn’t think it was. Why, was it showing? of what that life was like. But I wanted to Did you see something I was trying to do something a little more conventional. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 You’re very childlike in many ways. hide? [Laughs.] Actually, for that scene, I was going to be a sportscaster. It seemed “Definitely. Playing an elf was not a I turned to my acting coach, Jim Beam, a lot more stable, even though getting radical departure for me, because I and another acting buddy of mine, Old into television journalism is just as hard � �

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not his first time behind the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 beard. In which 1999 animated TV special, starring Drew Barrymore as the voice of a reindeer, did he provide St. Nic’s pipes? as anything else. Then, of course, I real- You mentioned Canada. Did you enjoy � � ized as I pursued that, I just wanted to be filming Elf in Vancouver? Chevy Chase more than Dan Rather.” “You mean in Hollywood North? Yeah, I Master and Commander stars loved it. It’s always fun to make movies 3 Paul Bettany and Russell What was your big break? in Canada because everyone there is so Crowe. Bettany just had a baby “I guess, on a grand scale, SNL literally nice and accommodating. They like the boy with Crowe’s co-star from 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 was the big break. Prior to that, it had fact that movies are being made there, A Beautiful Mind. Name her. been a very strange six months for me. instead of thinking of it as a hassle.... It all started when I got cast in this little Even though I’ve done years of TV, I play, in Los Angeles, that was literally 12 haven’t done a whole lot of films. So I’m minutes long. My part required me to still in the learning process, and it’s nice Hugh Grant and Colin Firth 4 are both in the new ensemble play a narcoleptic, and I had to grow my to do it in an atmosphere that’s friendly hair out really long. And, when I grow and exciting.” comedy Love Actually. In this hair out, it becomes a big-time Afro. which movie did they last Then I got three parts in these different What have you learned that will ensure appear together? TV shows, all in one week, all because of you don’t do any more movies like this Afro. For some reason that was like A Night at the Roxbury? a good luck charm for me…. Then they “I learned that, ultimately, you really Which star of The Matrix called me up and asked me to audition have to be vigilant about what you think 5 Revolutions was named Miss 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 for Saturday Night Live. And it’s been is funny and what’s not, because in the Maryland in 1988? downhill ever since.” end, you’re the one that’s up there on screen and not anyone else. That’s why Why did you leave Saturday Night Live? I’ve been very selective about doing “Once Lorne Michaels wanted me to smaller roles until I found a film where I The Haunted Mansion is the sign a contract where my first born had felt good about putting my neck on the 6 third movie inspired by a Disney to have the initials ‘L.M.’ tattooed on line again. I’m really excited about Elf. World ride in two years. What their backside, I felt like he had gone It’s the movie I’ve been wanting to make are the other two? too far. But when they told us they were for a long time.” only going to pay us in Canadian dollars, ANSWERS

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The gesture garnered him a lot of press, R perhaps because it showed a generous and personal side of the actor that he tries to keep from the public. Even his co-stars don’t know much about the real Keanu. “I love him, but I forth between the real and computer Reeves does reveal that the training don’t have a clue,” says Fishburne. � � worlds to battle the baddies. Neo seems required for the fight scenes in Reloaded There are, however, some very per- to be no one — and yet may be The One. and Revolutions was far more difficult sonal things he has been unable to hide, Like Jesus Christ, he has died and been than anything he’d done for the first like the miscarriage his girlfriend brought back to life to save mankind. movie. “[There were] more moves in the Jennifer Syme had in 1999, and Syme’s Although little has been revealed fight with the Smiths [the so-called Burly death from a car crash a couple of years about Revolutions’ plot, it’s safe to Brawl of Reloaded] than I did in the whole later. Since then, Reeves has been linked assume the war between the rebel first movie,” he explains. with Amanda De Cadenet, ex-wife of 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 humans and the agents of the computer But the actor is shy about extolling the Duran Duran member John Taylor, and world will come to a climax. virtues of any of his movies. For Reloaded, actor Claire Forlani. But that’s just spec- You may have already noticed that the he just said he was “excited,” and happy ulation. Nobody really knows what he’s Wachowskis like to layer on as much as to join members of his family at the pre- up to — and Reeves isn’t going to tell. possible, usually without explaining miere. His sister Kim, a horse breeder Perhaps he has no real private life how all the parts fit together. The who has been battling leukemia for now. Despite maintaining an apartment ambiguous, and necessarily incomplete, years, was there, as was his half-sister, in New York, Reeves drifts from town to ending of Reloaded, for example, left Karina, and their mom. But not his dad, town making movies. After Revolutions, many viewers both mystified and upset. Reeves is estranged from his biological you’ll see him in the romantic comedy Others angrily debated the content. father, who landed in an American jail Something’s Gotta Give, as a doctor treating “Well,” says Reeves, “The platform of on narcotics offences several years back. Jack Nicholson, and in Constantine, a

the piece itself lends itself to speaking Where Reeves is reluctant to spout the comic book adaptation in which he plays 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 about ideas. So thank God that there is type of over-the-top hyperbole actors a man investigating the supernatural. something to talk about because, other- often throw around when promoting Reeves’ thoughts on Constantine reveal wise, what are they doing? Some other their films, his producer, Joel Silver, just a little more of himself: “I really like films don’t have that ambition.” knows no such restraint. “The next movie that guy. I like his ambivalence. I like his Reeves refuses to name the specific is really a monumental movie. It is fantas- vitality. I like his darkness. I like his philosophies on which the trilogy draws. tic. It is just really spectacular,” he gushes. anger — I really like his anger — but Same goes for the philosophical and reli- But there is at least one solid tidbit also his kind of underlying grace, his gious beliefs to which he subscribes. “I Silver is willing to reveal about underlying love for humanity. He finds don’t have my list in front of me,” he Revolutions — it will put a lid on the something out about himself and his says. “I could probably make a list but Matrix story once and for all. “I mean, humanity.” then I’d be doing what the brothers this story ends. The story does end,” he Maybe it’s in the characters to which don’t want to be doing: ‘Here’s my literal says, putting to rest speculation that he’s drawn that we can learn the most thing.’ They don’t propose a finality to it. there’s more to Neo’s tale. about Keanu Reeves. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 They don’t say, ‘Here’s the answer!’ They The end of the Matrix saga means the don’t do that except — and this will be end of Reeves’s license to print money. Bruce Kirkland writes about movies for the revealed in Revolutions — they do come Combined, the two Matrix sequels will Toronto Sun. to something. And I think it sounds really goofy, but it’s about love.” Despite the obvious Christ imagery, LARGE-SCALE REVOLUTION Reeves claims there isn’t even one specific On November 5th, for the first time, a theatrical release will be released in 70mm on IMAX religion invoked by his own character. “I screens on the same day as its conventional, 35mm, counterpart is released in other think the film itself, and what [the char- theatres. And what better movie with which to break this ground than The Matrix acters] do, is such a synthesis of different Revolutions: The IMAX Experience? perspectives and philosophies,” he says. It makes for a tough decision, no? By checking out the IMAX version of the film you get

Even the way Neo dresses — like a futur- to see the luminous, PVC-clad Carrie-Anne Moss kick ass in super-sized style, but you also 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 istic Franciscan monk — is just “one of have to see Agent Smith’s receding hairline stretched out like the 49th parallel. Of course, the fun things you could riff about.” if you’re a real fan you’ll sit through both versions back-to-back, sans pee break. —IR

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Inside the Cat House t would seem there’s something on Scarborough, Ontario’s Mike Myers. the lead in the adaptation of the 14th about Canadian comedy that’s in Coincidence? Or is there something children’s book published by former 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 I sync with Dr. Seuss. Or, at least, that binds the two? editorial cartoonist Theodor Geisel something about Canadian comics. Both Carrey and Myers are adept at (his pseudonym was a combination of When director Ron Howard needed a physical comedy (perhaps a throwback his middle name, which was also his living, breathing human to transform to our British roots, Benny Hill, and mother’s maiden name, and the into a furry, pear-shaped ogre for the all), which is important when you’re knowledge that his father had always first feature-length Seuss adaptation, trying to capture Seuss’s whirly, twirly, wanted a doctor in the family). How the Grinch Stole Christmas, he called fantastical beasts. Published in 1957, The Cat in the Hat on Newmarket, Ontario’s Jim Carrey. Carrey’s first claim to fame was his was inspired by the Life magazine And when first-time director Bo Welch celebrity impressions created simply by article “Why Johnny Can’t Read,” (the production designer behind Edward manipulating the muscles in his face. which chronicled illiteracy among Scissorhands, Batman Returns and Men in By squinting his eyes and elongating children. In response to the article,

Black) needed a member of our species his puss, he could do a dead-on Clint Geisel’s publisher challenged him to 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 to play a walking, Eastwood without even speaking a write a kids’ story using only the 250 talking feline word. Myers has never been afraid to words that would be key to a first- in the newest prance around like an idiot when it grader’s vocabulary. Geisel did better, Seuss spin-off, helps his character — whether he’s penning Cat with only 220 different The Cat in the go-go dancing as Austin Powers or words, in all sorts of imaginative, Hat, he called strutting about as Dieter, Saturday creative and evocative combinations, Night Live’s “Now we dance” avant of course. garde German talk-show host. The story follows a little boy (our And perhaps it was that sense of unnamed narrator) and his sister Sally, physical abandon that nabbed Myers who have nothing to do on a rainy day. � �

MYERS ON MYERS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Cat in the Hat star Mike Myers doesn’t do a MYERS ON CANADA… lot of interviews, especially with the print “The Canadian experience is the experience media. While you may see him on Letterman of ‘not.’ We’re not American. We’re not or Leno from time to time, it seems he’d English. We’re the ‘Hey guys, wait up’ guys.” rather pass his hand through an open flame —USAWeekend.com, June 6, 1999 than sit down with a reporter. Which is too bad, because when the Canadian comic does MYERS ON COMEDY… speak, he often has something interesting to “[Comedy is] the realization of your own say. Here are a few examples from some of mortality. When a man steps on a banana his rare print interviews: peel, he’s subject to gravity, and in that 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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and anarchy, and the kids are terrified R that mother will come home to a demolished abode. The book takes about 10 minutes to read, meaning Welch and crew had to do some pretty serious stretching to turn it into a feature-length film. The first difference you’ll notice is a stable of new characters. Leaving a couple of kids alone might have been acceptable in the ’50s, but not today. So, enter Mrs. Kwan (Amy Hill), the nearly comatose babysitter. The kids’ mom, who only appears 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 on the very last page of the book as a foot and hand emerging through the front door, has an expanded role and T.O. Co. Grooms Cat will be played by Kelly Preston. We’ve also got next-door neighbour hy would a big L.A. studio to take it off the tape and put it in the Lawrence Quinn (Alec Baldwin), and like Universal choose a small Avid [computer editing suite]. This way, a bunch of friends for Sally and her W Toronto special effects we just pick up the phone and say, ‘The brother. Sean Hayes (Jack from TV’s company to work on a huge film like shots are there.’” Will & Grace) voices one of the few The Cat in the Hat, which was shot The “there” of which Magled speaks characters who actually did appear in entirely in California? is another computer screen on the the book, the fearful little goldfish Why not? other side of the continent. Someone

who warns “No! No! Make that cat go “As funny as it sounds, it’s faster work- on his end has already uploaded their 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 away! Tell that Cat in the Hat you do ing this way,” explains Allan Magled, scenes onto a secure website, and as not want to play.” visual effects supervisor for Toronto’s long as the folks on the other side have Theodor Geisel died in 1991 and Soho VFX. The year-and-a-half old the right password, all they have to do is since then his widow, Audrey Geisel, company worked on three scenes for pluck them out of the ether. has been carefully controlling the Universal’s $90-million (U.S.) Dr. Seuss The bulk of the film’s effects were rights to his works. adaptation, a film where the only done by Oscar-winning, L.A.-based If any more of his books come to other Canadian connection is star outfit Rhythm & Hues (Babe, X-Men 2). the big screen we have a few more Mike Myers. But it’s not unusual for a studio like Canadian comics to recommend. “We could be working next door to Universal to farm some odds-and-ends How about Tom Green as Yertle the them in Los Angeles but we’d still have out to smaller shops towards the end of Turtle, Harland Williams as Horton of to transfer the files over, take a tape, production. Horton Hears a Who or Dave Foley as pop it into a deck, record it all, bring Soho’s work varied in complexity 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The Lorax? the tape to them. Then they would have from simply erasing the harnesses that � �

moment you realize he’s just matter and he’s to how he deteriorated.” MYERS ON HIS FAVOURITE mortal. Therefore, you laugh at your own —The Washington Post, June 10, 1999 SLANG… mortality.” “The word ‘shag’ can mean a green —USAWeekend.com, June 6, 1999 MYERS ON HIS WIFE, ROBIN… cormorant or fine-cut Virginia tobacco. Or, “She’s hilarious. She’s a tough New York indeed, it could mean something rough and MYERS ON HIS LATE FATHER… Jew from Queens, and I’m a gentle woolly, but in this case it comes from the “[His death] was really like a meteor Protestant from Canada. So you can’t get ancient Sanskrit, ‘shagri,’ which means ‘he hitting the Earth. I just realized I can’t much more different. We’re funny together who enjoys himself with abandon with a make any plans. In the story of my life, the at home, but not too funny. She keeps my camel.’ They later outlawed the practice,

sharpest person I knew wouldn’t get mind in check.” I believe.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Alzheimer’s. The proportion of how my —Sun Times (South Africa), —Sun Times (South Africa), career was going was in direct proportion August 4, 2002 August 4, 2002

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helped Myers, Dakota Fanning and Here, Myers wasn’t even in the same 3/C � � Spencer Breslin (the Cat’s two young room with Baldwin — partly because

Wreck your B charges) jump on their spongy yellow of scheduling conflicts and partly couch, to flying all the way to because it was easier to film the other own House G California to supervise a shoot in three cast members in front of a blue which a real live, snorting, furious screen and then add the hanging THE CAT IN THE HAT R bull charged toward a terrified Cat later. VIDEOGAME (XB, PS 2, GBA, PC) cameraman barricaded inside a little In the end, Soho’s contribution to ne of the dangers of basing a camera cage. The Cat in the Hat will amount to just a O videogame on a movie is that the “It’s worth it for us to be there and few minutes of screen time, and characters rarely look much like the to make sure the blue screen is lit about three months of work. Magled actors who played them on screen. The properly, and so we’re confident that won’t reveal just how much of the designers at Vivendi Universal Games we know what we’re getting,” film’s enormous budget their team seem to have that problem licked with explains Mike Kowalski, producer for earned. But thanks to the currency this new title that comes out on Soho VFX. exchange, Universal got a better deal November 4th. But Dr. Seuss purists with them than they would have with be warned. You can expect the an American company. videogame to take you even further from the original text than the movie “It’s faster working Financial advantage is just one of 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the reasons Soho VFX got the gig. already has — a bevy of brand new enemies were created just for the title, The other, Magled says, is simply this way,” explains which claims to be a “non-violent” knowing the right people. The last challenge for kids six to 12. Magled.... “We just movie they worked on was American Wedding, another Universal film. pick up the phone They did the scene in which Jim shaves his privates before the big and say, ‘The shots wedding day, only to have his pubic hair — which was digitally created — sucked into a vent that leads to the are there.’” kitchen. “They’re preparing all the food Back in Toronto, that footage was and the hair is flying all around the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 cleaned up, doctored and polished by room, it’s a blizzard,” describes a team of about 12 artists working on Magled. “People are running around the top floor of Soho’s converted choking on it, it’s in their mouth. It’s downtown warehouse. pretty funny.” Then it was slipped into a scene Another funny thing is that, even where the Cat opens a regular old though these guys worked on The Cat door in the kids’ house to reveal a in the Hat for three months, they charging bull, complete with a cheering haven’t seen much more of it than the crowd and rose petals — neither of scenes described here. And they won’t which ever really existed. see the finished product until the rest In yet another scene, the Cat clings of us do.

to the ceiling in an attempt to That’s just the way it is when you’re 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 hide from an aggravated neighbour working on a hush-hush Hollywood (Alec Baldwin) who’s come to investi- flick. gate the ruckus. —Marni Weisz

MYERS ON CREATING AUSTIN MYERS ON WHAT COULD HAVE POWERS… BEEN… “I was driving to hockey practice and I “In fact, I am quite serious. I wanted to be an heard “The Look of Love” on the radio, and architect. I like buildings, and Toronto is full to me it was evocative of an entire world. So of lovely old Victorian buildings. I would have I started doing this character from that time liked to have been a Frank Lloyd Wright-type period, and I would do it at home too, and architect or to follow the style of all those hor- 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 finally my wife was like, ‘Yeah, okay, izontal guys. I still play about with LEGO bricks enough. Just write it down.’” and dream of building wonderful houses.” —Eye Weekly, May 1, 1997 —Sun Times (South Africa), August 4, 2002

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MOORE TAKES LEGAL ACTION, DIAZ GOES ON A MISSION AND THE ROCK BECOMES ROYALTY | BY INGRID RANDOJA 3/C B G R

HAWAIIAN ROCK Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson continues his rise to the top

of the action-hero pile. Having won over audiences with 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The Rundown, and finished filming the remake Walking Tall, Johnson is gearing up to star as an 18th-century Hawaiian king in King Kamehameha (pronounced Kuh-May-a-May-a). The aforementioned royal was responsible for uniting the fractured tribes that ruled the seven Hawaiian islands, and welcoming the English explorers who visited the region.

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name I of I the I game I PRECIOUSSSS GAME New Lord of the Rings title puts other movie spin-offs to shame | BY MARK MAGEE

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[GBA, GC, PS2, PC, XB] B Ever since Atari’s version of E.T. drove thousands of gamers to question the existence of a kind and merciful god (trust me, it really was that awful), videogame G

aficionados have stayed far, far away from any game adapted from a film. R Of course, there have a been a few noteworthy exceptions. The James Bond- inspired Goldeneye was a mammothly successful fragfest, while Knights of the Old Republic — a recent Star Wars title — gave fans more quality storytelling than a dozen Phantom Menaces. However, on the whole, most movie-themed games are little more than cheap knockoffs designed to milk a few more bucks out of a name- brand franchise (we’re looking at you, The Matrix). But that’s an accusation that can’t be leveled at the Lord of the Rings videogames. Exhibit A: last year’s thrilling Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, an exciting, old-school action game that was filled with tons of adrenaline-pumping battles and gorgeous, cinema-quality graphics. And now it looks like the bar is being raised again with The Return of the King, a sequel that offers the same great gameplay as The Two Towers, but with more characters, weapons, combos and — best of all — an all-new co-operative play mode!

Obviously, the game is set during the events of the third film, which means armchair hobbits can swashbuckle their way through Minas Tirith 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 or take on the diabolical spider Shelob. Depending on the situation, you can choose to step into the shoes (or furry feet) of many of the film’s characters. Sometimes you’ll be playing as the stealthy Sam, while at other times you take on the role of the bold, sword-swinging Aragorn. And rumour has it, if you unlock a secret or two, you might even get to go searching for your precccioussssss…

True Crime: NINJA GAIDEN [XB] square miles of L.A., all while getting Streets of L.A. For those of us of a certain vintage, the themselves caught up in high-speed phrase “Ninja Gaiden” summons up shootouts and John Woo-esque gunfights. images of smoky arcades and/or Fred Of course, some may sneer at this title, Savage’s idiot savant little brother playing dismissing it as a thinly veiled GTA clone. NES in the Nintendo-financed flop film But for those of us bored with paint-by- The Wizard. numbers linear games, this is a happy sign

Thanks to a boatload of ninja-riffic that the open-ended style of gaming is 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 action, the original Ninja Gaiden became finally catching on. one of the most popular arcade games of the late ’80s. And now it’s back, with all the PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF wall-running and shurikens you can handle. TIME [GBA, GC, PC, PS2, XB] Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time The plot is your standard lone-wolf- With the release of their top-notch stealth warrior-seeking-revenge claptrap, but this espionage title Splinter Cell, Montreal- game ain’t about scintillating dialogue based studio Ubi Soft immediately became — it’s about slicing people in half! Not one of the hottest videogame-design houses surprisingly, the whole game is basically in the world. Their latest offering is an one long fight, but the great graphics and update on the old-school classic Prince of simple-but-fun gameplay keep it from Persia, a side-scrolling puzzle/action game turning into a dull button-masher. that can still entertain almost a decade after it was originally released. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF L.A. For this new version, the Prince [GC, PS2, XB] ventures into the world of 3-D, where he Ninja Gaiden Almost two years after Grand Theft Auto 3 encounters all kinds of deadly desert reinvented the wheelman, developers are baddies. But luckily for him, he’s got finally catching on to the fact that people plenty of slick moves and tricky acrobatics really like free-roaming games that let you to help him escape trouble. And if that tool around in cars, wander the streets fails, he can always use the mysterious with a sniper rifle and just generally cause “sands of time” to stop the clock and bend whatever type of mayhem you want. time itself. Case in point: True Crime, a violence- drenched driving/action game that allows Mark Magee is a freelance writer based in

players to zip back and forth through 250 Toronto. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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t is a testament to the resilience of the World Wide Web that it didn’t melt down early on October 14, 2003 — Ihours after the release of The Matrix Reloaded on DVD. In the first hours of Day One, post-Matrix Reloaded DVD,

experts believe that ten-hundred-zillion new bytes of data hit 3/C the web as the global Matrix cult began to re-analyze the RELIVE B movie and post their conclusions online. (Okay, perhaps

that’s a bit of poetic license, but you get the idea...) G In the second chapter of the Matrix trilogy, freedom RELOADED R fighters Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue their quest to save the human race from evil computing machines. But to the consternation of many, Reloaded posed more questions about ON DVD the nature of the matrix than it answered. In fact, talk to 10 fans who saw Reloaded in the theatre and MATRIX CAST MEMBERS TAKE YOU you’ll hear 10 different theories (and 20 different questions) BEHIND THE SCENES OF THEIR about what it all means: Neo is now a machine; Zion is a matrix within the matrix; The Matrix is a matrix within a matrix; soft- NEW DISC | BY SCOTT GARDNER ware bits can kill other software bits with a battleaxe because… And with this month’s theatrical release of the final film, The Matrix Revolutions, fans are even more desperate to under-

stand what’s come before. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 A PERFECT SYNERGY OF GEEK, MACHINE AND STORY The best question might be: Why do people care so much, and how did a dark, philosophical futuristic action/ thriller/romance/suspense popcorn flick get so big, anyway? And The Matrix IS big. Its influence shows up everywhere from Charlie’s Angels to snack bar commercials. French actor Lambert Wilson, who played Merovingian, the power-hungry rogue program in Reloaded, believes the first Matrix got into people’s heads because of its perfect The Twins battle Morpheus synergy with an up-and-coming little home entertainment technology called DVD. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “The way the DVD allowed people to go back and analyze The Matrix made it into a cult,” says Wilson at the Beverly Hills junket where much of the cast and crew has assembled to promote the disc’s release. Impossibly, he is even more hand- some, suave and faintly sinister in person than he is on screen. “They had so much to question and study — almost frame by frame — and they will have that with Matrix Reloaded, too.” SO WHAT’S ACTUALLY ON THE DISCS? The original Matrix remains one of the best-selling DVDs of Trinity and The Keymaker all time, and is widely credited for kick-starting the huge sales ride the freeway of DVD players that began in the late 1990s. Three years later, the two-disc Reloaded DVD has oodles of extra features, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 including a behind-the-scenes production overview with cast and crew, a 30-minute look at the intense freeway car chase, featurettes on The Animatrix and Enter the Matrix, and a review of the impact The Matrix has had on popular culture. For many viewers, both casual and fanatic, the most com- pelling extras will be the documentary footage of the balletic martial arts and the epic freeway chase. The force behind these extras is Matrix series producer Joel Silver, whose résumé also includes three Die Hard and four Lethal Weapon pictures. Silver says that with the influence of computer- generated images (CGI) in movies, he wants the audience to

see — through these features — just how much of the movie 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Neo takes on the Smiths was filmed in real time, and only later augmented with CGI. Reclining backstage at Reloaded’s post-junket DVD launch

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BRUCE ALMIGHTY OR JAMES BOND Terminator 3 G R NOVEMBER 4 as a new version of the Terminator) has LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: also been sent back in time to protect CRADLE OF LIFE FINDING NEMO him…and the rest of humanity. Stars: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler Voices: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres Director: Jan de Bont (The Haunting) Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unrich DUMB AND DUMBERER: WHEN Story: There’s something about an orb, Story: Once again, Disney drops its hook HARRY MET LLOYD and Pandora’s Box, and the possible end into the deep waters of separation anxiety Stars: Eric Christian Olsen, Derek of the world. Plus, Jolie has much more (Dumbo, Bambi) for this tale about a Richardson realistic breasts than in the first movie. little clownfish snatched from his dad Director: Troy Miller (Run Ronnie Run!) (Brooks) and friends in The Great Story: The sequel to 1994’s Jim Carrey NOVEMBER 25 Barrier Reef, and plopped into a fish goof-fest Dumb & Dumber may have cost tank in a dentist’s office. more to make ($19-million versus $16- BRUCE ALMIGHTY

million), but it sure didn’t make more at Stars: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE the box office ($26-million versus $246- Director: Tom Shadyac (Patch Adams) AND BLONDE million). Was a $7-million profit worth Story: Bruce (Carrey) is a news reporter Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field the trip back to high school with Harry who, after a really bad day, rants at God Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld and Lloyd, to see the first bloom of their (Freeman). But instead of letting loose (Kissing Jessica Stein) unabashedly stupid friendship? with the lightning and locusts, God gives Story: Lipstick lawyer Elle Woods is Bruce a chance to see what it’s like to be happily working at a big law firm and NOVEMBER 18 in his shoes, endowing him with all the planning her wedding to Emmett (Luke powers of a deity. Wilson) when she discovers that her SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN beloved pooch’s mama is being used by SEAS X2: X-MEN UNITED a cosmetics company for research. So Voices: Brad Pitt, Michelle Pfeiffer Stars: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart Elle puts everything on hold and goes Directors: Patrick Gilmore, Tim Johnson Director: Bryan Singer (X-Men) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 to Washington to change the law. Story: When the powerful Book of Peace Story: Good and bad mutants must come is stolen, roguish Sinbad is framed, and together after a mysterious shape-shifter EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS then blackmailed into finding it — and (Alan Cumming) attacks the president, Voices: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider bringing the book home — or his child- intensifying the rest of society’s mistrust Director: Seth Kearsley (debut) hood friend will be killed. of the genetically altered ones. Story: Sandler’s odd ode to the Jewish holiday (he also wrote and produced) follows a 30-something bully who’s new to forced to do community service as a DVD basketball coach after getting in trouble COMPLETE JAMES BOND COLLECTION with the law. The first seven Bond movies (arranged in no particular chronological order) were released on DVD last year in what MGM packaged as 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 NOVEMBER 11 their “James Bond Volume One Giftset.” Now Volumes Two and Three arrive in stores just in time for Christmas. If you want to get that TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE special friend all three, though, they’d better be pretty darn special, MACHINES as each set will set you back about $157, for a total price tag of Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl $471. But that chunk o’ cash does get you 20 flicks — 20 trips to Director: Jonathan Mostow (U-571) exotic locales, 20 chances to see Bond get it on with that special Story: There’s a mean android from the gal, 20 happy endings… Expect all the usual extras and doodads, future after John Connor’s ass (model like original trailers, photo galleries, mini-documentaries, stunt Kristanna Loken as the Terminatrix). footage and audio commentaries. Fortunately, a less-mean android (Arnie

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november B HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN G R take-charge approach. It’s an ideal month scorpio for expanding a collection or taking on a October 23 >>> November 21 new hobby. You’ve waited most of the year for this month. Now you can establish your repu- aries KATIA SMIRNOVA tation and make the world — or at least March 21 >>> April 20 one important individual — take notice. Be selective about making commitments growth. A friend who is prone toward — or you could find yourself exhausted by exaggeration should be taken seriously, sagittarius this time next month. You’re less materi- especially after the 11th. November 22 >>> December 22 alistic, more philosophical, thanks to the You’re finding it tricky to strike a balance influence of a new friend. Renovations leo right now. For example, your expectations and repairs are in the picture, but don’t July 23 >>> August 22 are too low for others, too high for yourself. do things on the cheap. If instant gratification is your thing, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 After a surprising dry spell, your social please wait for next month’s horoscope. life starts gaining momentum around the taurus November is when you crawl inch by inch full moon of the 8th. April 21 >>> May 22 toward your goals. Add oomph to your Feelings of under-appreciation vanish social life by hosting a spontaneous party. capricorn when you, at last, get the recognition you Home-improvement plans move smoothly December 23 >>> January 20 deserve. Late-month is the best time for after a recent setback. You explore new interests, including, finding unique gifts for special people. quite possibly, the supernatural. virgo Neighbours are in a competitive mood, gemini August 23 >>> September 22 while you take a more laidback approach. May 23 >>> June 21 “Less is more” is October’s theme. Try Take the initiative, and try to get a not to squeeze too much into life. A more

aquarius strained relationship back on track before philosophical or creative approach can 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 January 21 >>> February 19 the end of the month. Young people seek help get you out of a funk. Sometime This is a great time for achievements, you out as a mentor, while older ones are after the 21st, you may meet a celebrity especially creative ones. Explore shared less demanding of your time. Don’t plan or mingle with a sophisticated crowd. interests with a new friend, and you’re in any surprises — especially surprise parties. for a nice surprise. They could backfire. libra September 23 >>> October 22 pisces cancer There will be competitions or rivalries this February 20 >>> March 20 June 22 >>> July 22 month, it’s up to you to turn them into pos- You show a tendency to take chances, November marks the beginning of a highly itive experiences. You’ll also get a chance which works well in relationships. Health, productive period. Sort out lingering family to fix an old mistake. Organization is your though, is an area that can’t be neglected. issues so that you can concentrate on strong point. You may want to get a head Family pressures ease up, thanks to your practical tasks — such as financial start on holiday shopping or travel plans. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

NOVEMBERBIRTHDAYS 16th Lisa Bonet 5th Sam Rockwell 17th Danny DeVito 6th Ethan Hawke 18th Chloë Sevigny 7th Joni Mitchell 19th Jodie Foster 8th Parker Posey 20th Bo Derek 9th Lou Ferrigno 21st Goldie Hawn 10th Brittany Murphy 22nd Jamie Lee Curtis 11th Leonardo DiCaprio 23rd Oded Fehr 1st Lyle Lovett 12th David Schwimmer 24th Colin Hanks 2nd k.d. lang 13th Whoopi Goldberg 25th Christina Applegate 28th Anna Nicole Smith

3rd Kate Capshaw 14th Laura San Giacomo 26th Tina Turner 29th Howie Mandel 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 4th Matthew McConaughey 15th Sam Waterston 27th Kathryn Bigelow 30th Ben Stiller

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